The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-15
TINE PROHIBITION
RNENFA.

o. the 18th Of August last the d.
m ocracy oil Tennessee assembled in
State Convention at Nashville, nomi.
mated R)bsrt L. Taylor as Its candi-
date for Governor and adoptei plat
Io,m, and the eighth resolution reads
ss follows:
Recognising the sovereignty Of the peopli,
/ o response TO their demand through their
rspreso tatives In tho last General Assem-
bly,, We fav submitting TO them for tpeir
adoption or r joc ion tho proposed oOnsutu~
tionAl amendment prohibiting tho manutao-
beverage In Tennessee.
True to its pledges, and never fearing
to tru, the people, the Democratic
legislature Of Tennessee has submitted
prohibition amendment to the popu-
lar vote No one obi acts to submits
sion. This pledge was demanded OF
the Dem ocrstic parry; 1t was squsrsly
aud unhesitltlngly given, aud the
party is honestly complying with its
plighted faith by submitting to the
vote OF the people the naked prohibit
ton amendment. A majority Of the
psop'e accepted aud Endorsed the
promise OF submission, ana honest
obedience to that pledge required the
legislature to do Just what 1t has done.
But that pledge to submit does not
carry With it any pledge to support the
amendment at the ballot box. 1ndeed,
the vote in favor OF submission Is no
indiost,o rs to what the vote will
b. on the proposed am andmsnt
as saloon keepers and those en-
gagged in the manufacture and traffic
of liquors supported the Democratic
party, Notwithstanding the pledge in
its platilrm in favor Of submitting the
constitutional amendment to the vote
OF the people. The question OF pro
hibition is before the New York Leg
islature, and the rem irkable spectacle
10 presented Of the liquor dealers and
the prohibitionists uniting in opposing
nigh liCense-.he latter on the grou I'd
that high license will kill prohibition
And tue former on the ground tina
they can m Ike more money under TIT
operations OF a. prohibition law thar
they eau under a high tax law. Ii
tho Pennsylvania LEGISLATURE prohi
Nj ION anne dment bill has been intro
du'ad and an amendment has beer
odd ID u 1t proposing u submit at tn,
same time a compensation amend
menr. Such a vote is unnecessary, a
the courts have already decided tina
capital and property employed in IT,
liquor traffic, wnen destr Eyed by leglt
lation, must bs paid for, Unquestioos
bly, it would be for the publiCl good
thu last sao1n could be closed, bu
ne ble men realEs the impracticl
l. lily II regulating by law what me
shsl war, eat auu drink, and theirs
ioiet .ey will concentrate their enel
gts upon the support OF measur
which can be clrried into effect an
which will operate 20 diminish d rim
aud crime 10 per cent. at least. Hig
iicenp- l. the best thing attainsbit
Prob bi ion is a mers dream, who'll
Improbable, while high hcens
has din nished the evils wherav,
risd. The only danger is lhai hig
!ice9ss m ght possibly drive the Equ'
dealers over to tbs prob blionis's, b
j. Wing tina, tb' y could cell more Al
make more money without any "a
AZ all under prohibition than TIA y CT
realize unfer q high license La
Whersv high license has been tri
Il has esuied in great res rictio
wberey-r prohibition has been tried
has resllt ID, so far as large cities a
conesrutd especially, ia no restr
tor, but in free Rnd untaxea liqu
traffic.